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Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Originally Posted by jamesrage

The fact they only charged him with possessing materials to make an explosive device is pretty clear that they don't have anything on him.Practically anything could be used to make an explosive or explosive device.

As claimed by whom? MacGuyver? Bombs are from what I've seen are pretty complex and require quite a bit of intelligence to make. You ever seen a dumb bomb maker? I haven't. Even expert bomb makers can screw up and get a finger blown off from time to time.

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Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Originally Posted by jamesrage

The fact they only charged him with possessing materials to make an explosive device is pretty clear that they don't have anything on him.Practically anything could be used to make an explosive or explosive device.

Maybe. But taking very suspicious items onto an aircraft is sure to get attention.

Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Bombs are from what I've seen are pretty complex and require quite a bit of intelligence to make.

Have you ever seen a firecracker? All it's just cardboard or paper,black explosive powder, and a fuse.

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Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Originally Posted by Hatuey

As claimed by whom? MacGuyver? Bombs are from what I've seen are pretty complex and require quite a bit of intelligence to make. You ever seen a dumb bomb maker? I haven't. Even expert bomb makers can screw up and get a finger blown off from time to time.

Are you kidding me? Anyone with high school science knowledge can make a bomb. Drano and aluminum foil they call a "bomb" these days. Making things explode is easy, it's the reverse which is hard.

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Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Sigh. I have two flash units for my camera, Nikon SB-800s, each packing enough wallop to kill a horse. Never once had an issue getting them on a plane. You are not safe. You never were. You never will be.

Originally Posted by calamity

Reports indicate that everyone knew he was hauling a bunch of guns up there. But, since you brought it up, there's something which should be illegal: guns that breakdown.

Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Originally Posted by Mycroft

Maybe. But taking very suspicious items onto an aircraft is sure to get attention.

He got it.

The only people that item may have been suspicious to is the TSA.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Are you kidding me? Anyone with high school science knowledge can make a bomb. Drano and aluminum foil they call a "bomb" these days. Making things explode is easy, it's the reverse which is hard.

I don't think he even user matches, lit some fireworks or knows how a bullet fires from a gun seeing how he thinks bombs are complex and require a bit of intelligence to make an explosive.

Last edited by jamesrage; 11-19-12 at 08:22 PM.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Originally Posted by Hatuey

As claimed by whom? MacGuyver? Bombs are from what I've seen are pretty complex and require quite a bit of intelligence to make. You ever seen a dumb bomb maker? I haven't. Even expert bomb makers can screw up and get a finger blown off from time to time.

Not really. I built one when I was 15 or so. I wasn't very smart back then, or I wouldn't have built it.
Oh, no I wasn't a terrorist, just a dumb kid who wanted to see something go boom, and it did. I still have scars from it, too.

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Re: Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport

Originally Posted by Dittohead not!

Not really. I built one when I was 15 or so. I wasn't very smart back then, or I wouldn't have built it.
Oh, no I wasn't a terrorist, just a dumb kid who wanted to see something go boom, and it did. I still have scars from it, too.